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Originally posted by bilmore
It's a reasonable comparison, though. Hitler was responsible for - what? - roughly 13 million deaths, and Strom - Strom! - well, we all know what he did!
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You'll note that my point of comparison was not the moral equivalency of the two men. It was the tone deafness of a person who would say that either "would have been" a great leader. A person who would say such a thing would necessarily be acting out of complete ignorance of how it sounds to the real stakeholders.
But hey, I'll gladly concede that killing people on the basis of race is worse than denying them human rights on the same basis.
"And I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there’s not enough troops in the Army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigger race into our theatres, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches." My parents were alive in 1948. That speech was made by a presidential candidate and later U.S. Senator during their lifetime.
